I have just downloaded Issue 115 again. After unzipping I opened some pages at random. Answers and Hotpicks for example. There is no "text" showing... just some screenshots and some titles in red. I'll try to post a screenie.

OK, I just tried 116 (full) and extracted the individual PDFs, then the individual PDFs and get no text in Acrobat Reader or Document Viewer on Ubuntu 8.10 x64. Only the "full" magazine is identified as a zip file. The individual files have .pdf extensions so they should work with both of these applications. I've had no problems with any other PDFs.before "25 killer apps" in LXF110. The other PDFs in 110 (well a random sample anyway) all appear OK.

I tried with 116 and I also have this problem with evince using libpoppler 0.8.7 on Ubuntu 8.10. The files appear OK using Acrobat Reader though. Seems to be a problem with libpoppler then. Odd that older issues appear OK though.

Update: this has also been discussed in this thread. It's definitely a bug in certain versions of libpoppler -- but with newer versions (eg in Ubuntu 9.04) it's fixed and the PDFs render as they should.